Netcraft in the News
31st December, 1997
Netcraft receives "Top 100 sites" Award.
Fortunately, someone else is doing all the hard work for you, regularly polling several hundred thousand sites on the Web and asking the servers to stand up and be counted. That "someone else" is Netcraft.
Netcraft find Millionth Internet Web Site.
Next time you're contemplating Web server software, ask the gushing salesman if their company currently run it themselves.
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is PC Magazine "Developer's Site of the Week".
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December 1997 Web Server Survey
1st December, 1997
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name. In the December 1997 survey we received responses from 1,681,868 sites.
December Results
Top Developers
| Developer | Nov 97 | Percent | Dec 97 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 695283 | 44.74 | 753341 | 44.79 | 0.05 |
| Microsoft | 293122 | 18.86 | 365012 | 21.70 | 2.84 |
| Netscape | 172650 | 11.11 | 175859 | 10.46 | -0.65 |
| NCSA | 68719 | 4.42 | 68097 | 4.05 | -0.37 |
| O'Reilly | 44622 | 2.87 | 46496 | 2.76 | -0.11 |
Top Servers
| Server | Nov 97 | Percent | Dec 97 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 695283 | 44.74 | 753341 | 44.79 | 0.05 |
| Microsoft-IIS | 280917 | 18.08 | 351755 | 20.91 | 2.83 |
| Netscape-Enterprise | 82304 | 5.30 | 88616 | 5.27 | -0.03 |
| NCSA | 68719 | 4.42 | 68097 | 4.05 | -0.37 |
| Stronghold | 40276 | 2.59 | 41829 | 2.49 | -0.10 |
Netscape is the sum of sites running Netscape-Enterprise, Netscape-FastTrack, Netscape-Commerce, Netscape-Communications, Netsite-Commerce & Netsite-Communications.
Microsoft is the sum of sites running Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, & Microsoft-PWS.
Posted in Web Server Survey
June 1997 Web Server Survey
1st June, 1997
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name. In the June 1997 survey we received responses from 1,117,259 sites.
June Results
Top Developers
| Developer | May 97 | Percent | Jun 97 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 442272 | 42.36 | 489695 | 43.83 | 1.47 |
| Microsoft | 170279 | 16.31 | 186079 | 16.66 | 0.35 |
| Netscape | 126747 | 12.14 | 135387 | 12.12 | -0.02 |
| NCSA | 69899 | 6.69 | 68278 | 6.11 | -0.58 |
Top Servers
| Server | May 97 | Percent | Jun 97 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 442272 | 42.36 | 489695 | 43.83 | 1.47 |
| Microsoft-IIS | 149757 | 14.34 | 167759 | 15.02 | 0.68 |
| NCSA | 69899 | 6.69 | 68278 | 6.11 | -0.58 |
| Netscape-Enterprise | 43784 | 4.19 | 50423 | 4.51 | 0.32 |
| Netscape-Commerce | 35717 | 3.42 | 37359 | 3.34 | -0.08 |
| Netscape-Communications | 36798 | 3.52 | 36244 | 3.24 | -0.28 |
Netscape is the sum of sites running Netscape-Enterprise, Netscape-FastTrack, Netscape-Commerce, Netscape-Communications, Netsite-Commerce & Netsite-Communications.
Microsoft is the sum of sites running Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, & Microsoft-PWS.
Posted in Web Server Survey
Netcraft finds Millionth Internet Web Site
3rd April, 1997
Netcraft today announced that its April Web Server Survey received responses from in excess of One Million internet web sites.
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is the primary empirical metric for the number of sites on the World Wide Web and the relative popularity of web server software on internet sites.
Since its inception, the number of sites found by the Survey has risen from 18,957 in August 1995 to 1,002,612 in the Survey which completed today. During this period, Netcraft's dataset has usually been the Internet's largest publicly searchable collection of web sites, with the one million sites currently available more than double the 475,000 sites claimed by Digital for its AltaVista search engine.
Posted in Netcraft Services, Web Server Survey
Netcraft in the News
31st December, 1996
The Netcraft Server Survey is perhaps the best known example of a site devoted to tracking technology penetration on the net. On a monthly basis, Netcraft sends out a robot to query every visible web site on the net with a simple question: what server implementation are you running? The resulting market share figures are tracked eagerly by anyone involved in the web server market.
The report also predicts that the providers of the two currently dominant Web security technologies, Netscape Communications Corp. with SSL and VeriSign Inc. with digital certificates, will face increasing competition as the market matures.
How difficult it was to set up a site with accreditation from Verisign and strong encryption outside the U.S., since the U.S. bars export of its strong encryption technologies
Netscape and Microsoft may both be claiming victory in the Internet server wars, but a survey conducted by an English Internet consulting firm show that freeware public domain servers from Apache and NCSA dominate the Internet.
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December 1996 Web Server Survey
1st December, 1996
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name. In the December 1996 survey we received responses from 603,367 sites.
December Results
Servers with more than 20,000 sites
| Server | November Sites | December Sites | November % | December % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 214366 | 247419 | 40.76 | 41.00 |
| NCSA | 70293 | 76210 | 13.36 | 12.63 |
| Microsoft-IIS | 29613 | 40466 | 5.63 | 6.71 |
| Netscape-Communications | 28887 | 30644 | 5.49 | 5.08 |
| Netscape-Commerce | 28093 | 30208 | 5.34 | 5.01 |
| CERN | 23160 | 21651 | 4.40 | 3.59 |
Developers with more than 20,000 sites
| Developer | November Sites | December Sites | November % | December % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 214366 | 247419 | 40.76 | 41.00 |
| Netscape | 72299 | 78256 | 13.75 | 12.96 |
| NCSA | 70293 | 76210 | 13.36 | 12.63 |
| Microsoft | 49266 | 58954 | 9.37 | 9.52 |
| O'Reilly | 20521 | 22753 | 3.90 | 3.77 |
| CERN | 23160 | 21651 | 4.40 | 3.59 |
Netscape is the sum of sites running Netscape-Enterprise, Netscape-FastTrack, Netscape-Commerce, Netscape-Communications, Netsite-Commerce & Netsite-Communications.
Microsoft is the sum of sites running Microsoft-Internet-Information-Server, Microsoft-IIS, Microsoft-IIS-W, Microsoft-PWS-95, & Microsoft-PWS.
O'Reilly is the sum of sites running WebSite & WebSitePro.